The Beijing Olympic Games 2008
The 29th Summer Olympic Games were held
in Beijing, China from August 8 to August 24. A total of 10,500 athletes
competed in 302 events in 28 sports. The official logo of the games, titled
‘Dancing Beijing’, featured a stylized calligraphic character ‘jing’ (meaning
capital), referring to the host city.
India’s performance at the Beijing
Olympics:
India put up one of their best Olympic shows ever, winning three individual medals —
one gold medal and two bronze medals.
# Abhinav
Bindra won the first ever individual gold medal for India in the Men’s 10 m
Air Rifle event.
# Sushil
Kumar won a bronze medal in Men’s 66 kg freestyle wrestling event and
# Vijender
Kumar won a bronze in the Men's 75 kg boxing event.
Olympic Stars:
The two stars of the Beijing Olympic
were swimmer Michael Phelps of the United States and sprinter Usain Bolt of
Jamaica. Phelps won record 8 golds in all 8 events that he participated. Phelps
surpassed Mark Spitz’s record of seven gold medals in a single Olympics.
Usain Bolt won the men’s 100 m dash with
a world record time of 9.69 seconds and won the 200 m dash gold with a world
record time of 19.30 seconds. He became the first since Carl Lewis in 1984 to
claim a sprint double.
Medals
Tally (Top 5 Countries)
Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1. China 51 21 28 100
2. USA 36 38 36 110
3. Russia 23 21 28 72
4. Great
Britain 19 13 15 47
5. Germany 16 10 15 41
India’s
rank was 50 among 202 countries.
Only 60 countries were able to win medals in
Beijing Olympics.
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